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The Romans spoke LATIN and LATIN had to be spoken wherever they went. It changed the local languages and cultures so much that some are still classified as LATIN countries. Italy, France, Spain, Portugal are the original LATINOS.


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Then the Spanish and Portugese (LATINOS) came to America and had their way with the native "Indians". They were either killed or converted to Christianity and of course forced to speak the language (and culture) of the invaders. Some of South-America (as official language) speaks Spanish (which would make them Hispanics), the rest speak Portugues (which sounds similar but is entirely different). Striclty speaking, Brasilians are not Hispanics. Thankfully the bible was written in LATIN and all of South America became LATIN.



Brazil is the only country that speaks Portuguese (some of the words are identical to Spanish) the rest speak Spanish.
Being Colombian, we do not or ever have identified ourselves as Hispanic. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew while the New Testament was written in Koine Greek, not Latin.

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The invaders never left, but to this day there remains a devide between those whose ancestry is primarily Spanish and Portugese (LATIN), or local (SOUTH AMERICAN INDIAN).


Wrong. After 300+ yrs. of occupation, there was so much mixing its virtually impossible to determine your ancestry.
The local indigenous people still speak their native language and are not Latin or Hispanic.

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The good thing is that whatever place you come from and whatever names you call each others in that part of the world - once you come to America nobody cares. Which also means, nobody wants to know. We all came from somewhere... it doesn't matter - at least, it shouldn't matter.


It does. Hyde's ignorance was he assumed the girl he spoke with was "your typical white girl" based on her appearance. Then yet assumed again, she was Mexican because of her last name. Your way off target. It does matter what we call and identify ourselves with. Based on your statement, if someone called you a dude with tits; it shouldn't matter cause no one really cares.

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You are in the USA. Be American. Speak American. Procreate. Post on xpt. Live and let live.

You mean speak English. You just reminded me of the ignorant people who walk up to me and say "Do you speak Mexican?" Its like Hyde's original post.
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